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Understanding social statistics : a student's guide to navigating the maze / Lance W. Roberts, Jason Edgerton, Tracey Peter, Lori Wilkinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxvi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195444299
  • 9780195444292
Other title:
  • Understanding social statistics [Cover title]
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 300.15195 23
LOC classification:
  • HA29 .R686 2015
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. General orientation : -- 1. The location and limits of quantitative analysis -- 2. The logic of social statistics -- 3. Calculations and computers -- Part II. Univariate analysis : -- 4. Introducing univariate analysis -- 5. Measures of central tendency -- 6. Measures of dispersion -- 7. Charts and graphs -- 8. The normal curve -- Part III. Bivariate analysis : -- 9. Understanding relationships -- 10. Bivariate tables -- 11. Scatterplot analysis -- 12. Proportional reduction in error statistics -- 13. Statistics for categorical relationships -- 14. Statistics for continuous connections -- Part IV. Multivariate analysis : -- 15. Taking additional variables into account -- 16. The elaboration model -- 17. Multiple regression -- Part V. Sampling and inference : -- 18. Samples and populations -- 19. Point estimates, confidence intervals, and confidence levels -- 20. Hypothesis testing -- 21. Various significance tests -- Epilogue: a few final words -- Appendix A. Chi-square table -- Appendix B. The student's t-table -- Appendix C. Areas under the normal curve -- Answer Key -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: "Students studying statistics for the first time can often feel confused, disoriented, and lacking direction. Understanding Social Statistics is a text crafted with this reality in mind, that many students feel lost and frustrated when studying statistics-much like being in a maze. USS acts as both a map and toolkit for navigating the maze of social statistics successfully. At every point in each chapter, students will have a clear idea of where they are and in which direction they are headed."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. General orientation : -- 1. The location and limits of quantitative analysis -- 2. The logic of social statistics -- 3. Calculations and computers -- Part II. Univariate analysis : -- 4. Introducing univariate analysis -- 5. Measures of central tendency -- 6. Measures of dispersion -- 7. Charts and graphs -- 8. The normal curve -- Part III. Bivariate analysis : -- 9. Understanding relationships -- 10. Bivariate tables -- 11. Scatterplot analysis -- 12. Proportional reduction in error statistics -- 13. Statistics for categorical relationships -- 14. Statistics for continuous connections -- Part IV. Multivariate analysis : -- 15. Taking additional variables into account -- 16. The elaboration model -- 17. Multiple regression -- Part V. Sampling and inference : -- 18. Samples and populations -- 19. Point estimates, confidence intervals, and confidence levels -- 20. Hypothesis testing -- 21. Various significance tests -- Epilogue: a few final words -- Appendix A. Chi-square table -- Appendix B. The student's t-table -- Appendix C. Areas under the normal curve -- Answer Key -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"Students studying statistics for the first time can often feel confused, disoriented, and lacking direction. Understanding Social Statistics is a text crafted with this reality in mind, that many students feel lost and frustrated when studying statistics-much like being in a maze. USS acts as both a map and toolkit for navigating the maze of social statistics successfully. At every point in each chapter, students will have a clear idea of where they are and in which direction they are headed."--Publisher's website.

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